About ARTUZ

The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ), formerly Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, is a teacher organization founded in 2009 and launched officially in Harare on the 12th of March 2013. The launch of RTUZ set a tone for our fight forthe improvement of both working conditions of rural teachers and livelihoods of citizens living in rural areas. The idea to form a rural teachers union was mooted in 2009 when the government of Zimbabwe introduced an incentive scheme in which teachers were to get 10% of levy paid by pupils.